Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Death
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Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.
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The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
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Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.